Medal-ribbon mount



' Apr. 3, 1-923.

' 1,450,722 c. F GAUNT- MEDAL RIBBON MOUNT Filed Mal". 10, 1921 Charles GHUfl/ per fil'forney Patented Apr. 3, 1923.

UNITED srarss ears-NT orrics. 1

CHARLES F. GAUNT, or BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

MEDAL-RIBBON MOUNT.

Application filed March 10, 1921. Serial Ito 451,363. i

To all whom it may concern: I Be it knownthat I, Crmnmgs FREDERICK GAUNT, of the city of Birmingham, England, a subject of the King of Great Britain,

5 haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Medal-Ribbon Mounts (for 1 which I havefiled an" application in England April 21, 1917, Patent No. 115,069);

and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof. This invention has reference to medal ribbon bars ormounts and consists ofthe here-,

in described improved method of, or means for, permanently attaching a medal ribbon or medal ribbons thereto It has previously been proposed for a medal ribbon bar to be formed of troughsection with upstandingedges and for the ribbon when folded roundthe front ofthe 2 bar and with itsends in the trough to .be

secured by a wire clip or by a second-removablebar secured in the trough by screws or other suitable means,such asby flat headed studs which pass through slots in the removable bar in'the trough and it has-also;v

' been proposed for these studs toflbelengaged by asplit pin at the back. The act of placing the removable bar over the ends of the ribbon or ribbons in the trough has the, of feet ofdrawing theribbon tightly round the front of the ribbon bar and securing the ribbon thereto as when the ribbon bar is fixed the ends of the ribbons are firmly clamped in thetrough between the ribbon bar and the removable bar. It has'also been proposed furnished with upwardly. projecting prongs like'the prongs of a paper fastener adapted to pass through the garment and to be opened out at the back of the same so as to secure the ribbon bar thereto. 1

, For the purpose ofmy invention a medal ribbon bar consists essentially of two bars namely a, front bar and a back bar. The

front bar is of elongated form with upstan ding parallel side edges so that the bar is of shallow trough section. The back bar is a parallel sided fiat section bar the width'of which is slightly less than the inside width of the trough of the front bar and the thickness of this back bar is slightly less than the depth of the upstanding sides of the front bar. In fixing the ribbon or ribbons, to the ribbon bar, the ribbon is or the ribbons are folded round the front of the front bar and the ends of the ribbon are folded over the sides of the trough and into the interior of the top of the ends of the ribbon or ribbons and there fixed by press tools or the like which close the side edges of the trough firmly on to and around the edges of. the back bar and also fixing the ribbon or ribbons'to the compound bar. I The back bar is preferably fitted with a brooch pin and;

catch orother suitable means forattachment of the medal ribbon bar to a coat or other garment.

For full comprehension however" of my invention reference must be had to the ac-scompanying drawings in which similar reference characters indicate the same parts and wherein r F igure 1 is a cross sectional isometrically projected back View ofa medal ribbontl bar constructedin accordance with this invention shewing also some' medal ribbons fixed thereto;

Figure 2 is a cross sectional elevation of the back andv front bars of the same sep-cv arated the front bar being shewn in the shape which it has before its side edgeszare closed down on tothe .ribbonia'nd back bar; Figure 8iis a cross sectional elevation'of the same before'the side edges of the front backcbar; a

Figure 4 is a cross sectional elevation of a modified form of'fronti bar for the ribbon baraand bar are closed down on to the ribbon and projected back view ofanlodified formof theback bar. Y

' Referring to the drawings it will beiseen that the medal ribbon bar consists essentiallygw iFigure5 is a cross sectional isometrically of two bars namely the front barAand the back bar B. The front bar A is of an elongated form having two upstanding parallel side edges marked respectively 1 and 2 and the back bar B is also parallel sided and of flat section but of a width slightly less than the width inside the trough that is the width between the sides 1 and 2 of the front bar A. The length of the bars A and B depends upon the width of the ribbon or of the various ribbons which it is required to hold.

The method of fixing the ribbon or ribbons to the combined ribbon bar is as follows: A short piece of the ribbon 3 that long enough to pass round the ribbon bar and over the upstanding side edges 1, 2 of the same to lie against the back of the ribbon bar is folded over the front and sides of the trough and into the interior of the same as shewn in Fig. 3 and there the ends are held by placing the back bar B on them in the trough as shewn in Fig. 3, so that the ends of the ribbon or ribbons are clamped between the two plates the ribbon being fairly tight. Now by press tools or the like the upstanding side edges 1, 2 of the trough enclosed by the ribbon or ribbons are pressed down firmly on to and around the edges of the back bar B as in Fig. 1 thereby at one operation securing the back bar B in the trough of the front bar A and also fixing the ribbon or ribbons to the compound bar and drawing the ribbon or ribbons tightly round the front bar. The

back bar B is furnished with suitable means for the attachment of the medal bar to a coat or other garment. For instance the back bar B may be fitted with a brooch pin such as 4 jointed at one end 5 to the back bar B and at the other end arranged to engageunder a hook like catch piece 6 formed on or fixed to the back bar-B.

a modified form of the front bar A one of the upstanding edges say that edge 2 is bent over into the trough as in Fig. 4 ready to overlap the edges of the back bar B and the ribbon or ribbons before the back baris placed in the trough and then both edges 1, 2 are finally closed down on to the :back bar and ribbon or ribbons as aforesaid. i

Or, as a further modification, the back bar B may have one or more pairs preferably two pairs of upwardly projecting flat pliable sheet metal prongs 7, 8 which project from the back of the back bar B and are adapted to pierce the'coat or other garment and to be bent over on the inside of the same to attach the compound ribbon bar thereto. These prongs 7, 8' can be made separately and fixed to the back of the back bar or they can be made in a piece therewith as lateral projections of the blank (as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 5) which are afterwards bent back on to the back of the plate B and bent upwardly as shewn by the full lines in this figure.

It will be seen that the front bar A and the back bar B are both of about the same length. In order to facilitate the placing of the back bar B in its correct position in the trough of the front bar A so that the ends are level the front bar A is at one end preferably made with a small upturned tongue or tang such as 9 forming a stop or an abutment for one endv of the back bar B to bear against.

What I claim is as follows:

1. A medal ribbon bar consisting of a sheet metal front bar of channel cross section, a sheet metal back bar located in position between the flanges of the front bar and bearing fiat against said last mentioned bar, a ribbon stretched over the front face of sald front bar and havlng its ends extending over the flanges and interposed between the bearing faces of the two bars, said flanges being bent down upon and overlap ping said back bar for the purpose of retaining the latter and the ribbon in place, means located at opposite ends of the front bar for preventing endwise displacement of the back bar thereon and means carried by the back bar for attachment to a garment.

2. A medal ribbon bar consisting of a sheet metal front bar of channel cross section, a sheet metal back bar located in position between the flanges of the front bar and bearing flat against said last mentioned bar, a ribbon stretched over "the front face of said front bar and having its ends extending over the flanges and interposed between the bearing faces of the two bars, said flanges being bent'down upon and overlapping said back bar for the purpose of retaining the latter and the ribbon in place, a rearwardly extending tongue formed integrally with the front bar at each end there of and adapted toengage the adjacent end of the back bar for the purpose of preventing endwise displacement of the latter.

3. A medal ribbon bar consisting of a sheet metal front bar of channel cross section, a'sheet metal back bar located in position between the flanges of the front bar and bearing flat against said last mentioned bar, a ribbon stretched over the front face of said front bar and having its ends extending over the flanges and interposed between the bearing faces of the two bars, said flanges being bent down upon and overlapping said back bar for the purpose of retaining the latter and the ribbon in place, a

rearwardly extending tongue formed integrally with the front bar at each end thereof and adaptedto engage the adjacent end of the back bar for the purpose of preventing endwise displacement of the latter, and means upon the back bar for attachment to a garment, said means consisting of a pair name to this specification in the presence of of fiat pliable sheet metal prongs secured two witnesses. upon the back bar and disposed perpendicularly to the rear face of the latter, said CHARLES E GAUNT' 5 prongs being adapted to be spread apart Witnesses:

when inserted through a garment. GORDON G. Coon In testimony whereof I have signed my WILLIAM J. C. HEWETSON. 

